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Hours

Nearby Subway Stops

Payment Methods

Cash Only

Product Guide

Gourmet

Bakeries / Specialty Cakes

Profile

The turnaround of Fifth Avenue is exemplified in miniature by Blue Sky Bakery,
a charming, tiny shop, thriving in the North Slope since 2003. Owner Erik
Goetze, a former design student with experience in advertising, pays attention
to the comforts of good, clean design, with the space’s whitewashed walls,
lemon-yellow woodwork and black Turkish marble tile, as well as a glass
showcase of vintage housewares for sale. The sunny décor sets the mood for
the bakery’s main attraction—muffins—which Blue Sky sells
wholesale to restaurants and cafes in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, and
retail at a quick pace to local commuters who breakfast on the $3 weekday muffin-and-coffee special. Moist, dense bran muffins loaded
with fruit and nuts lead the trade, followed closely by sugar-dusted wild
blueberry muffins and pita-sized chocolate chunk cookies. The store
even makes its own doggy treats. A half-dozen café-tables invite lingering over
sweets, espresso or iced coffee, brewed double strength and packing a
caffeine punch. — Helen Zelon

Extra

Frequent muffin fanciers rack up
stamps on their Blue Sky muffin
cards—buy eleven muffins and get the twelfth
one free with a cup of American
coffee or hot tea.